Every few years, somebody dusts off that 2007 YouTube-special “documentary” Zeitgeist like it’s forbidden knowledge smuggled out of the Vatican basement. And every time, a fresh wave of people—good, intelligent people—start doubting their faith because some gravel-voiced narrator with a trance soundtrack told them Jesus was just Horus with a better haircut.
Let’s be blunt:
Zeitgeist is the theological equivalent of eating gas-station sushi.
It looks edgy.
It tastes edgy.
But you’re going to regret trusting it.
This wasn’t scholarship. It was a late-night dorm-room conspiracy marathon dressed up as enlightenment. The entire thing was stitched together from 19th-century occult writers, cherry-picked Wikipedia pages, and enough historical illiteracy to fill a Smithsonian wing.
The film claims Jesus was copied from Horus, Mithras, Dionysus, and whatever other pagan deity they could scrape off a museum wall. Too bad none of those gods were:
• born of a virgin,
• crucified,
• resurrected,
• had 12 disciples, or
• were moral teachers of any kind.
You’d have better luck proving SpongeBob SquarePants inspired the U.S. Constitution.
Even atheist scholars publicly mocked Zeitgeist. That’s how you know you’ve gone off the rails: when Richard Dawkins is begging you to stop embarrassing his atheist movement.
And let’s not forget the Christmas myth. “Christians stole December 25 from pagans!” Sure. And I suppose your birthday loses all meaning if someone else’s is in the same month. News flash: early Christians weren’t ripping off Roman frat parties. They were following Jewish symbolic calendars. But “Pagan Copy-Paste!” sounds cooler in a YouTube thumbnail.
Early Christians believed Jesus was conceived on March 25, based on Jewish theology about creation and redemption. Counting nine months from conception gives December 25. This is the actual origin of the date — not the Sol Invictus pagan myth.
What Zeitgeist actually did was reveal how easily people fall for psychological warfare dressed as philosophy. The enemy didn’t need evidence. He needed vibes. Ominous music here, creepy symbols there, sprinkle in a few “You’ve been lied to!” moments, and suddenly spiritually malnourished Americans panic like the History Channel just found Atlantis under a Waffle House.
This wasn’t a documentary.
It was an ambush.
Ephesians 6:12 already told us the deal: we wrestle not against flesh and blood. If you can convince a generation that Jesus is a recycled sun-god meme, you can shatter their purpose and disconnect them from the Source. The whole strategy is simple:
Destroy identity → Destroy vocation → Shrink Eden → Expand chaos.
Heiser, God bless him, tore this nonsense to shreds. He showed that humans aren’t cosmic accidents—we’re imagers of God, His representatives, His co-rulers, designed to spread goodness into the world like embers catching fire. That’s why the enemy hates the idea. If he can get you to believe Christianity is just “copycat paganism,” you’ll never realize you were born into a war with a mission to push back darkness.
And here’s the kicker: the Bible never tried to imitate paganism. It declared war on it.
Jesus didn’t look like any pagan god.
He embarrassed them.
He flipped every script the ancient world had ever seen.
A crucified God?
A resurrected Messiah?
A kingdom for the poor, the broken, the outsider?
That wasn’t pagan. It was nuclear.
So here’s the truth:
If a slick documentary once shook your faith (honestly it did mine), it’s because the enemy knows the stakes. He doesn’t launch full-scale psychological operations on beliefs that don’t matter. He attacks because the Imager identity is real—and dangerous—to him.
If you want your purpose back, your dignity back, your identity back, stop letting pop-documentaries written by caffeinated agnostics shape your worldview. Go to the Source. Crack open the Book that outlived empires. Read the words that survived Caesars, Communists, skeptics, sectarians, and every armchair historian with Wi-Fi.
And if you’ve been away from Christ because Zeitgeist scrambled your brain for a season, here’s your lifeline:
You leave the lie.
You can return to the truth.
Knock.
Ask.
Seek.
The King is still there. And He’s still calling His imagers home.
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